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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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Banana Breeders Challenged to Breed for Weevils and Nematodes
29.03.18-
Biodiversity
Banana researchers from across the globe are congregating in Kampala, Uganda from 27 to 29…
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Seeds of Renaissance: Changing lives in Borno
22.03.18Reports of a positive impact are being received from recipients of the seeds donated exactly…
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Pressing for progress: IITA celebrates Women’s Day 2018
14.03.18IITA celebrated International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March with a seminar held at the…
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Nigeria Zero Hunger Forum suggests actions to end hunger and create wealth
14.03.18Coming from its third quarterly meeting in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, the Nigeria Zero…
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Harvest time Nigeria! Aflasafe moves from research to nationwide commercialisation to protect food from deadly aflatoxin
12.03.18-
Health
Today, Africa’s most populous nation – Nigeria – takes a giant stride forward in the…
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IITA, icipe, CABI: Developing a strategy to combat invasive species in Africa
08.03.18-
Biodiversity
IITA, together with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) and the Centre…
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Women in agriculture: The extra value we bring
08.03.18-
Gender equality
The women of IITA join millions around the world in celebrating the International Women’s Day…
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault celebrates 10 years
28.02.18The Svalbard Global Seed Vault marked its 10th anniversary on 26 February by receiving shipments…
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New CRP (GLDC) focuses on strengthening whole value chains
28.02.18-
Food security
Over 130 participants from 25 countries met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to confirm partners and…
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Researchers use DNA prediction models to speed up banana breeding
21.02.18An international team of scientists have for the first time demonstrated that it is possible…
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IITA and Liberia explore partnership on youth program
18.02.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery, Kenton Dashiell, led an IITA team to meet the…
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NextGen Cassava gets more support for cassava development
16.02.18Cassava is vital to the food security of millions of Africans who eat some form…
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The first factor for a successful application is obviously that farmers can access and use it,” James Legg tells SciDev.Net
09.02.18James Legg, a Tanzania-based plant virologist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture…
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TAAT launch signifies new day for African agriculture
09.02.18IITA hosted scientists, technologists, economists, development partners, and program specialists fro…
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IITA and partners meet with Togo president and officials to discuss joint projects
29.01.18The IITA Director General, Nteranya Sanginga, in a joint delegation with the CEO of the…
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IITA/AfDB to launch a bold plan to revolutionize African agriculture
21.01.18Scientists, development specialists, agricultural experts, representatives from national agricultura…
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Africa RISING –NAFAKA partnership benefits over 50k households in Tanzania, exceeding targets
05.01.18-
Food security
The partnership between two projects funded by USAID, Africa RISING, and NAFAKA, and whose goal…
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